Damn this hadith goes hard. 0. What makes you you? When you wake up, what makes you the same person who went to sleep the night before? Why do you survive sleeping? You might go Ricky, that’s easy. It’s my physical embodiment: I wake up with basically the same body I had the night before. And if some atoms change here and there, no big deal. Sure, maybe I can imagine waking up in someone else’s body, but that’s fantastical, so who cares? I agree, but let me push back. You cou

Later this month, I’ll be teaching my dissertation chapter on grief to a grad seminar of young bioethicists as part of a class session...